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Jul 3, 2025
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hello everyone and welcome to another episode of Not Now Nail Mom I'm gaming
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my name is Kay and in this episode we'll be talking about Children of Silent Town
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prologue which isn't actually a prologue at all it's a chapter one so I don't know why
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they didn't put chapter 1 in the title and they put prologue instead because even the game states it is chapter one
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that you're playing on the save screen so yeah I I can't figure out their thought
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process on that one however in saying that I really really like this prologue
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i love the characters i love the soundtrack i love the artwork
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very simplistic inventory management i talk about all this stuff in the podcast so I won't go too far
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into gushing about it at the beginning but I do want to say this is the Fourth of July week so happy 4th of July don't
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you know fire off a firework into your face or someone's butt cuz that's just
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not how this work party safely and all that i think our neighbors started
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shooting off fireworks or firecrackers or whatever like on the 29th
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come on save it for Fourth of July why you got to waste stuff like that i don't know if they're making sure they work or
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what and I hope you all can tell that uh I am trying to dish out more videos on
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this channel maybe wait listen to me i talk a lot and
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then I start yawning plus it's past my bedtime it's 10 o'clock you guys it's past It's an hour
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past my bedtime oh my god but I am trying to dish out more videos on this
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channel i'm trying to focus a bit more on it the reviews are very easy to do cuz
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they're like you know 3 minutes long it's the podcasts that take up so much
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time even a 30 minute game like this one takes a full day
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to just comment a review on it and edit all of it post it on YouTube schedule it
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it's It's so annoying it's rewarding for me to do it because you know I get to have possible conversations with you
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guys in the chat or in the in the chat in the comments section you know your
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thoughts on certain things if you played the game before or maybe you're interested in playing the game after
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listening to the podcast or maybe you just want to listen to me ramble I don't know
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but this little splurge I'm doing is not going to last forever because I do get
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burned out easily and not only that video games take a lot of time like I've
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been playing some of the shorter ones so once I get into the bigger games it's like the reviews are just they can't
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keep going you can't play I don't know five 10our
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games and expect a review every day
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it's just it's not going to happen not with someone who has
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a 10-hour job that they already do and this is kind of like a side thing for
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fun oh I won't dle anymore cuz it is my bedtime so I've already done the
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recording i've already done the editing and all that stuff i just you know fixing up the intro for you guys so
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hope you enjoy leave your comments likes subscriptions they'll
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fling them at me i really like how before the game actually starts they have the screen says "We have detected a
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gamepad attached would you like to play using it?" So you can play with a mouse and keyboard but you can also play with
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a controller and seeing as my controller is plugged in I do enjoy playing more controller
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than actual keyboard and mouse so yeah all right so with the title screen we got a little bit of movement going on uh
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not too much but it's it's nice than it's nicer than staring at a uh
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static image I guess i really like how Children of Silent Town is written though
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it kind of looks as if children actually scribbled the letters
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into maybe like bark or something tree bark if you click on more games there
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are six other games it shows you New Cycle which is Citybuilder Edge of
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Insanity Into the Emberlands Capes Wildwoods and Once Upon a Puppet
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i've not played any of these games so I think the only one that I've actually
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heard of well I think I've heard of Edges Sanity as well as Into the Emberlands
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yeah those are six games that you could try out they definitely have more i
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didn't click on anything but I assume they take you to a new window in your browser when you start a new game there
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are three empty slots which is kind of weird for the prologue because it's so
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short that you don't really need three slots you only need one cuz I can't see
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someone coming back to play the prologue over again as there's no achievements to it you could look for things you missed
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but I don't think you're able to get those things in the prologue i think you actually have to play the full game but
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before we leave the title screen though I want to share some of the music cuz I really like the soundtrack in this game
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even for the prologue it's so good
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[Music]
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this is what you look forward to on the title screen but not a lot of people just hang around the title screen and
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listen to the music though unless you know Claire obscure you might hang around listen to that music when we
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enter the game we get this scene at the start it is a known fact that we all have ears
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to listen and eyes to see as we get older our senses go numb and our
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perception fails us however sometimes those who have a great sight look the
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other way while those who hear well do not listen because more than old age or
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any kind of illness fear is often the hardest disease to treat
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i agree with that because I have some pretty bad paranoia at times anxieties a
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lot of fear over just like little little noises and such and it's like yeah I take anxiety
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pills but nothing can stop paranoia I
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don't think because it's it's your imagination at least it's my imagination
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so I'm thinking of all these scenarios that just aren't true and if I didn't think about the scenarios then I wouldn't be paranoid so yeah fear is
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really difficult to treat you have to kind of change your mindset and a lot of
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people just can't i don't I don't think I can and I told my therapist that I was like I just I don't think that I'm able
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to change my mindset so I just go to her and talk about things ever heard of
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Silent Town i've heard of Silentville which is a game um not the best game has
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some really bad sound effects creaking doors specifically whenever you mouse
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over them i mean it's one of those games where I'm not opposed to it i'm not
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upset that I played it but it's not really a game that you would recommend to anyone like it's okay but no don't
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play it there's other better games
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a handful of roofs standing out in the heart of the forest
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no voices no noises only whispers and gasps
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people enslaved by rules to stay safe [Music] because while the forest by day was calm
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and peaceful once night had fallen you could hear them roar
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the monsters
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I'm pretty sure the forest has either a lion in it or a tiger this art style is
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so cute it's so very disturbing when seeing the people of this game but it is
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such a cute art style i love it i love the strokes i love the I don't even know
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what you would call this style the dappling of color so we're able to pick
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up objects in this game and when you do you get this big notification says you
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got so and so then an icon of it and what I like most is the icon backdrop
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has kind of like sun rays twirling around it so you can see the object a
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bit better even though it is pretty big on the screen and it does go into your inventory
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so the game teaches you you just click like uh left trigger then grab the ball
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once you have an object in your hands it will appear in like a thought bubble and he told us to throw the ball but
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apparently we can't throw the ball cuz I was trying to click every single button
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I could but you actually have to approach him to give him the ball which
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isn't as cool as just throwing it at his face honestly you know looking at this art style not
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so much the art style but the characters themselves it really reminds me of Last Day of June
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took me way too long to think of that title i had to go through my Steam in order to find it cuz Google was no help
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interesting how she had another nightmare but was sitting on the bench so she fell asleep while she was sitting
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there on the bench and had nightmare i suppose with how her eyes look it seems like she has insomnia
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so maybe it is better to sleep in the daytime than it is nighttime
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that could probably work for nightmares you know well I don't know when you're
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scared of something you hide so well nobody can find you i guess when paranoia strikes it's a good idea at the
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time but I mean when you dream of the end of the world like I did once and
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guiding don't really help with that so we get our first choice here when blue wants to use this super shot we can
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choose cut it out and play by the rules or show me what you got
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i chose show me what you got because you know if you got some skills you got to show them off right unfortunately his
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super shot landed the ball straight into someone's garden apparently so our mom
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comes to uh get us for dinner and it's so interesting how all these characters look so different unique and how they
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dress their hairstyles and stuff like that but their eyes their eyes all remain the same that horrifying
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insomniac look also this chick says "Who's going to get the ball back now?" As if it was our job
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to do that in the first place i feel like our relationship with our dad isn't
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I don't want to say all that great but not that strong seems to be chiding us and then just
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completely ignores both daughter and wife meanwhile our mom kind of
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intercedes and deescalates a little bit but yeah I don't think our relationship with her
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dad is as good as it is with our relationship with her mom sometimes when
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you come across an object of interest there's more than one thing that you can interact with and what I really like
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here is instead of trying to maneuver around so you can interact with that one
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specific thing you want to interact with you can press left button or right button in order to switch between the
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objects the three magnifying glasses so if you we're on the stool right now but if we want to look at the pots and pans
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we can click right button it'll move to that or if we want to check out the hole in the wall we can hit right button
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twice and I'll go to that i really like that concept god our cat really needs a
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freaking door to the outside and she can use herself my dad's always complaining cuz she goes
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into the bedroom and then normally she sleeps with them but she'll go under the
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covers to attack his feet if he's not paying attention to her cuz she wants to go out at 3:00 in the morning every day
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3 in the morning like clockwork it's crazy we have a cat whose name is Squinty interesting name
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i love the cat purr it doesn't pearl that much you had to interact with it every time you want to hear it purr but
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I love hearing cats purr it's so relaxing this is the same with my cat i
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bought a little cat bed for her and all we do is throw her toys in it cuz she
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don't ever get in it she'll walk by and she'll make biscuits on it and then she'll walk away and then lay next to it
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or something it's like really come on i think she's only laid in it
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once is that a thing do horseshoes actually keep bad spirits away i mean I
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know I've heard that like they're lucky but I don't remember hearing anything about bad spirits when you need to grab
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an item when you hover over well get close enough to the item a little hand
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appears which means you can take it and then when you want to well just like the
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start of the game if you want to hand it to someone you have it in your hands and
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go up to the person in question there's little gear icons we need firewood from
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the chest and this is one of those objects that has a hand over it except
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we can't do anything so this is a point in game where it's allowing you to kind of look around cuz clearly you have to
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move the cat i mean I don't see why she can't just pick up the cat and throw it
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but I guess that's mean when we enter our room we get a scene of her picking
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up her diary and the game states "Now you can use the diary here Lucia will
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write down everything she discovers as she explores the town." When you enter it you have a my collection which is
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where every time you find a sticker they will be placed here and then the right side is for music notes
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so every single area has three music notes to find she picks up one of the
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pictures she drew in her room and it really reminds me of a supernatural
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episode where a boy just he wouldn't talk but he would draw things like dark
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things to kind of hint at what was going to happen if any of you watch
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Supernatural I'm sure you know which episode I'm talking about and of course Squinty's toy is on the ground so that's
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all we need in order to move Squinty away from the chest after you give the
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cat the toy and you almost knock the le over that's when you get your first note
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and the journal automatically opens after you get a note so it shows you which is nice
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the game states "Lucy notes down every unusual sound she hears in her diary creating melodies once a melody is
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complete you can use it in your adventure." Next up our mom needs sausages from the basement and we need
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to grab one of the candles that are on the table and light it so you can use
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objects in another in order to interact with other objects to kind of combine
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them so you need a lit candle uh fire hazard alert don't put lit candles in
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your inventory things will start burning mainly you cuz inventory is on you
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i love the music change when you enter the basement it's got a bit more of an
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dark vibe an ominous vibe also has little notes of I don't know upbeat
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notes it's not all dark and ominous and forboding
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but there's definitely a darker tone also the first thing we see is the cat eyeing the fish
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that is a terrible spot to put this fish you know it's so annoying when a kid
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leaves the room in order to do something or you know just
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to go somewhere I guess and then the parents find this moment to talk about
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something important you know cuz it's out of the kid's earshot like the kid
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can't come up behind you without you hearing them first off secondly when the kid comes into view you're like "Oh well
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we'll talk about it later." like you weren't talking about something important clearly we're going to know you're talking about something important
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even though we might not know what it was but I guess something happened and it's knowed that rules are in place for
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a reason they got complacent and the mom says it's been a while since the town's
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been silent so maybe if someone goes missing the town kind of goes into morning a morning
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period and goes quiet we try to get the salt next which is on
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top of a shelf that's way too high for us so we use a stool but apparently the cat tries to kill us because that's what
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cats do and the salt comes tumbling down i
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thought our mom was calling us a little pest and to get out cuz we dropped the salt but no she was talking to the cat
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after our mom tells us to go outside and play our dad asks where we're going and
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I feel like this is kind of like a little standoff between husband and wife like the sun's setting
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you need to stay home but the mom told her she can go out and play
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so there two opposing mindsets and I still don't know about the father i mean
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he says you know why I'm worried i want Lucy to be safe and you're too lenient so he's I don't know if he's strict
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but I think he's more by the rules than the mom is the mom's like he said
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more lenient she wants her kid to have fun to go outside
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at a safe distance right outside the house but even her dad doesn't want that
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outside our house there's a woodworker station which I find really weird why is
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the woodworker working right outside of our house unless our town is just this
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small that little every little space needs to be used for something important
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now here we have a musical instrument i don't know if it's supposed to be like a
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trombone or something maybe i'm not very knowledgeable on the horned instruments
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out there but when we play it we don't get a musical note which I thought was a
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little weird cuz I was thinking any you know musical sound in this game you
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would get a note in order to put in the diary so this one doesn't do that unless
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I had to click on it multiple times i only clicked on it twice though we did
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however get a sticker from it so maybe that's why we didn't get a note if you go into your collections after you
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collect a note you can click on it and some information will come up for you so
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for the trumpet or whatever it was the Wizman can make anything even musical instruments one day I'll ask him to
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craft one for me too i still don't know what though so you can kind of get her thoughts a little bit on certain
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stickers which is nice it's not just something pretty to look at if you head over to the shed you can accidentally
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break the handle off of the door and you can use that handle in order to put it
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on the bell which will then make a sound and place into your diary this gives you
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the second note of this chapter so we're still missing one and I don't know if
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the notes as well as the stickers go in order so if I missed some stickers since
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I got the third one out here and if it's going to be a little bit later before I
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get the third instrumental note sound i don't know if it goes in order for both
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of those cuz it looks like it does for the notes and if it does for the
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stickers as well then I'm bad at looking for stickers when we talk to the crazy old lady in our yard she gives us a
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sticker and also I find it funny how she calls the town's folk crazy and then she
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herself is crazy she says that and she tells us we can trust this crazy old
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lady i'm like I don't know about that then she says the line "Lucy you'll have
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to be very brave." Understood which is kind of foreshadowing
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oh crazy old lady i don't know she's a special kind of crazy i think I can deal
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with the Townsville crazy i think the Townsville crazy is pretty much the desire to not get
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attacked by whatever it is out in the woods but she she's I don't know i don't know about her our mother calls us in
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for dinner but Squinty has other ideas and takes the path into town and of
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course it's night so you know we're not supposed to be out here but we follow the cat because we're a girl concerned
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about our kitty which is a mistake because cats can
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indeed take care of themselves and I swear this thing is trying to kill us
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well with the stool and now bringing us over here i do like the buildup in this area because you got the lights that are
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flickering which nobody likes that and then a bell tolls I'm guessing for
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maybe nighttime curfew and then it turns in kind of a psychological scene where
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something is coming forward from the bakery just a dark shadow so we don't
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know what exactly it is i don't know the game just has a good concept of not
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giving us the full details like it was a shadow with kind of a
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creepy face coming at us but I don't think those are shadows in the forest that are trying to get people i think
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it's actually something but it's not showing us what the actual something is
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we get our next note in a scene where our mom is playing the lear and you
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would think this is the third note that we get in this chapter i think they're chapter specific but no
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it's not it's in the next one so we missed out on one note
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from the initial chapter which makes me think they do go in order maybe and then
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we enter chapter 2 so I think I think the prologue is actually chapter 1 it's
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not actually a prologue when our character looks outside the window it shows multiple sound waves
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coming from the forest so that implies that there's more than one thing out
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there that people are afraid of i think this scene here is probably the best
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part of the prologue cuz we have kind of static image but it's a little
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wobbly like we're kind of drunk while we're looking at it and it just gives us
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prompts so the first prompt is to draw
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draw again stand up and then we approach someone
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getting closer and closer and it's a kid that turns to look at us over their
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shoulder and they say "Lucy don't turn around." And you get the prompt for turn what I
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really like what's very unsettling is the music here cuz it's getting kind of
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I don't know the term for it how they do this it's that buildup i don't know if
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it's I think it's violins with the screechy buildup of violins maybe
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it just gets louder and louder and louder until it stays at a certain tempo I guess and you click turn
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[Music] and you get a quick flash of a big old monster but man that music buildup that
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was something after that it kind of takes you into a trailer video of a sort
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maybe an actual opening scene past the quote unquote prologue
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[Music]
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heat heat
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and that's the end of our podcast review of Children of Silent Town Prologue i still
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don't know if prologue is the right word for this it is it is a chapter one cuz
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on the save screen it says chapter 1 home i don't know why they called it a prologue i don't know why they just
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didn't call it chapter one but I really liked it i think it was just long enough
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it could have worked as a prologue quite honestly the artwork's great the characters look great in a horrifying
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kind of endearing way
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definitely not nightmare fuel residents of a village god that's how they look what do the
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creatures in the woods look like right i really found it hard to find cons for
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this game because it's not the full game and I can't review it as a full game so
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reviewing it for what we got out of it i think the only thing that I didn't like
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was the idea of not being able to get all the music notes and I don't know if I missed them or not if I missed that
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one I feel like it really should have been that musical instrument but it's it's
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the only thing I can think of maybe I had to click on it multiple times more than twice
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but also not knowing if the stickers are also in a specific order
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cuz if that's the case then I missed two of them in chapter one as well as the
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one music note kind of a bummer not really knowing that i know that someone in the Steam
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comments or reviews mentioned that this game didn't really pull them in didn't
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make them want to play more and I disagree with that i like the game just fine it's not a prologue it is a chapter
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one demon says chapter one but I think it did a really good job of making you
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want more maybe I'm just biased because I like the artwork i like the soundtrack
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it's a clean inventory style you don't pick up a whole bunch of items and figure out what to do with them it's
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fairly straightforward but yeah I'm curious on what your guys's thoughts are on this game feel free to chat about it
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in the comments and don't get in too much trouble when you say "Not now Mom i'm gaming
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